Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldier lives in drafty, cold wooden shacks that have been condemned years ago. The plumbing is rusted and faulty, and the heating is almost nonexistent. The so-called poorer countries of France, Italy and Germany furnished their troops with comfortable brick barracks that had rooms for single occupancy to a maximum of a squadroom for six to eight soldiers...
Soldiers' Feild was put to immediate use and became the scene of Harvard's athletic contests. A battered wooden grandstand was used to accommodate spectators...
...danger from the old stands was highlighted early in 1903 when a section of the wooden bleachers at Soldiers' Field caught fire and was demolished during a Harvard-Princeton baseball game. Fortunately, no one was injured...
...Class of 1879 was the moving spirit behind the agitation for a new seating system. Originally, the Class had offered to donate its 25th anniversary gift for the construction of new wooden stands. But Professor Ira N. Hollis, Chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, had more ambitions plans--he would build a permanent areus. The Class of 1879 was delighted with the bold ideas...
...chair, a straight-backed, wooden affair, dates back to the administration of John Holyoke, who had it imported from England in 1750. It was first used in 1770 at the inauguration of Samuel Locke, Harvard's tenth President, and has been a part of the ceremony ever since...